LINGUIST List 14.2867

Tue Oct 21 2003

Books: App Ling/L2 Acquisition: Chapelle/Kroll

Editor for this issue: Marisa Ferrara <marisalinguistlist.org>

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1. jreid, Computer Applications in Second Language Acquisition: Chapelle
2. jreid, Exploring the Dynamics of Second Language Writing: Kroll (ed)

		
Title: Computer Applications in Second Language Acquisition
Series Title: Cambridge Applied Linguistics
			
Publication Year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
 http://www.cup.org
			
Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521626463
Availability: Available

Author: Carol A. Chapelle, Iowa State University 

Paperback: ISBN: 0521626463, Pages: 228, Price: U.S. $: 24.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521626463, Pages: 228, Price: U.K. �: 14.95
Paperback: ISBN: 0521626463, Pages: 228, Price: AUS $: 52.50
Paperback: ISBN: 0521626463, Pages: 228, Price: EURO: 20.76

Abstract:
			
This book proposes unique conceptual bases for addressing questions
about technology in second language teaching, testing, and
research. It illustrates existing computer applications; overviews
essential software concepts; outlines research needs; and suggests
approaches for investigating computer applications in second language
teaching, testing, and research.

1. Foundations for Computer Applications in Applied Linguistics
2. Fundamental Definitions in
3. Computer-Assisted Language Learning Activities
4. Software Principles for CASLA
5. Assessing Computer-Assisted Language Learning Tasks
6. Computer-Assisted Language Assessment
7. Computer-Assisted SLA Research
8. Directions for CASLA.

Lingfield(s): Applied Linguistics
		Computational Linguistics
		Language Acquisition
			 
Written In: English (Language Code: English)

 See this book announcement on our website:
	 http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=7700
	
										

		
Title: Exploring the Dynamics of Second Language Writing
Series Title: Cambridge Applied Linguistics
			
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
 http://www.cup.org
			
Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521529832
Availability: Available
 
Editor: Barbara Kroll, California State University, Northridge 

Paperback: ISBN: 0521529832, Pages: 358, Price: U.S. $: 26.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521529832, Pages: 358, Price: U.K. �: 19.95

Abstract:
			
A collection of 13 original articles, this book is intended to provide
a series of discussions about multiple aspects of second language
writing, presenting chapters that collectively address a range of
issues that are important to new teachers at the post-secondary
level. The chapters provide scholarly visions, insight, and
interpretation oriented toward explaining the field of teaching
academic writing to non-native speakers. The book is designed to
provide foundational content-knowledge in this area, each chapter
authored by recognized experts in the field. Throughout the chapters,
presentation and review of scholarship is presented primarily in the
interest of understanding how such knowledge directly or potentially
imparts teaching, making this a pedagogically relevant book. In
addition to helping train new teachers, the book will serve as an
updated reference book for practising teachers and scholars to
consult.

Part I. Exploring the Field of Second Language Writing: Section
	introduction
1. Second language writing in the twentieth century: a situated
 historical perspective
2. Research on second language writing: an overview of what we
 investigate and how
Part II. Exploring the Voices of Key Stakeholders: Teachers and
	Students Section Introduction:
3. Experienced ESL/EFL Writing Instructors' conceptualizations of
 their teaching: Curriculum options and implications
4. Second language writing up close and personal: some success stories

Part III. Exploring Writers' Finished Texts: Section introduction
5. Responding to writing
6. Grammar and the ESL writing class
7. Writing teachers as assessors of writing

Part IV. Exploring Contextualities of Texts: Section introduction
8. Genre and ESL/EFL composition instruction
9. Changing currents in contrastive rhetoric: implications for
 teaching and research
10. Reading and writing relations: L2 perspectives on research and
 practice
11. Literature in the teaching of L2 composition

Part V. Exploring Technology: Section introduction
12. The impact of the computer in second language writing

Epilogue: exploring ourselves: Section introduction
13. A challenge to L2 writing professionals: is writing overrated?			

Lingfield(s): Applied Linguistics
		Second Language Acquisition
			 
Written In: English (Language Code: English)

 See this book announcement on our website:
	 http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=7712